Windows did an update, and now I received a 'notification' (the one that shows up in the lower right corner) which proceeds to play (display that cycles through my photos) a bunch of my photos from my files. I have image files on both my hd and dropbox. I don't know which location it's getting them from yet.I do not want this. How can I turn it off and prevent the OS from snooping in my image files? Thanks

Sounds like you have Windows 10. What I did was go into Settings and open up every single category and turn everything to NO where you can and find.... It took me about 10 minutes to go thru all the categories and sub categories turning everything OFF..Good luck!Mitch

MitchF150 wrote:Sounds like you have Windows 10. What I did was go into Settings and open up every single category and turn everything to NO where you can and find.... It took me about 10 minutes to go thru all the categories and sub categories turning everything OFF..Good luck!MitchI believe it's SETTINGS: SYSTEM (should be the first choice): NOTIFICATIONStowards the bottom of the screen you should see something like NOTIFICATIONS FROM OTHER APPS or words to that effect. you can turn them ALL off or individually.

Download this free program. Makes it really easy to shut off all the Windows privacy items....Windows Shut Up 10

downtheroad wrote:Download this free program. Makes it really easy to shut off all the Windows privacy items....Windows Shut Up 10Nice, thanks.

Best to just go thru every single category and turn everything OFF if you don't want any of that stuff.. Not download some 'free' program..I just went thru mine again and found stuff turned back ON that I know I had turned OFF before....Can't believe I have to do this every freaking month after their mandatory "update Tuesday" updates...No, I'm not going to go to a mac either... I drank the kool-aid with MS so that's where it is...Ugh.. I'm too freaking old! Ha, ha!Mitch

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MitchF150
Explorer III
Feb 17, 2019
Best to just go thru every single category and turn everything OFF if you don't want any of that stuff.. Not download some 'free' program..

I just went thru mine again and found stuff turned back ON that I know I had turned OFF before....

Can't believe I have to do this every freaking month after their mandatory "update Tuesday" updates...

No, I'm not going to go to a mac either... I drank the kool-aid with MS so that's where it is...

Ugh.. I'm too freaking old! Ha, ha!

Mitch
gbopp
Explorer
Feb 17, 2019
downtheroad wrote:
Download this free program. Makes it really easy to shut off all the Windows privacy items....

Windows Shut Up 10

Nice, thanks.
downtheroad
Explorer
Feb 17, 2019
Download this free program. Makes it really easy to shut off all the Windows privacy items....

Windows Shut Up 10
rk911
Explorer
Feb 17, 2019
MitchF150 wrote:
Sounds like you have Windows 10. What I did was go into Settings and open up every single category and turn everything to NO where you can and find.... It took me about 10 minutes to go thru all the categories and sub categories turning everything OFF..

Good luck!

Mitch

I believe it's SETTINGS: SYSTEM (should be the first choice): NOTIFICATIONS

towards the bottom of the screen you should see something like NOTIFICATIONS FROM OTHER APPS or words to that effect. you can turn them ALL off or individually.
MitchF150
Explorer III
Feb 16, 2019
Sounds like you have Windows 10. What I did was go into Settings and open up every single category and turn everything to NO where you can and find.... It took me about 10 minutes to go thru all the categories and sub categories turning everything OFF..

Good luck!

Mitch

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